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CRABGRASS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns

Synonyms:

crab grass; crabgrass; finger grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("crabgrass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crabgrass"):

crowfoot grass; Dactyloctenium aegypticum; Egyptian grass (a creeping grass with spikes like fingers)

Digitaria ischaemum; smooth crabgrass (a weed)

Digitaria sanguinalis; hairy finger grass; large crabgrass (a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States)

Holonyms ("crabgrass" is a member of...):

Digitaria; genus Digitaria (crab grass; finger grass)

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